Sales Tax Real-time Invoice

Verification
Updated : 27 Jul 2016

Presentation Scheme

Introduction
Legal Changes
Changes in Rules
Process explained
Screenshots

Issue explained

Illegal input tax adjustment

Past Practice
STARR
2007 e-return
CREST
E-invoicing world-wide

Legal Provisions
Amendments made to:
The Sales Tax Act, 1990
The Federal Excise Act, 2005
The Sales Tax Rules, 2006

The Sales Tax Act, 1990

Clause (9) of section 2
and different dates may be specified for furnishing of
different parts or annexures of the return;

Proviso to Clause (i) of sub-section (2) of section

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Provided that from the date to be notified by the
Board in this respect, in addition to above, if the
supplier has not declared such supply in his return or
he has not paid amount of tax due as indicated in his
return;
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 Clause (l) of sub-section (1) of section 8

from the date to be notified by the Board, such
goods and services which, at the time of filing of
return by the buyer, have not been declared by
the supplier in his return or he has not paid
amount of tax due as indicated in his return.

Sr. No. 19 of Table in section 33

or the rules made thereunder
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The Federal Excise Act, 2005

Sub-section (2A) of Section 6
From the date to be notified by the Board,
adjustment of duty of excise under sub-section (1)
shall be admissible only if the supplier of input
goods and services has declared such supply in his
return and he has paid amount of tax due as
indicated in his return.

 Sub-section (13)section 19
Any person who contravenes any provision of this
Act or rules made thereunder for which no
penalty has specifically been provided in this
section shall be liable to pay a penalty of five
thousand rupees or three percent of the amount
of duty involved, whichever is higher.

The Sales Tax Rules, 2006

Sub-rule (2) of rule 18 of the Sales Tax Rules,
2006, amended through SRO 493(I)/2016 dated
01.07.2016
(2) The proviso to clause (i) of sub-section (2) of
section 7 and clause (l) of sub-section (1) of section 8
of the Sales Tax Act, 1990 and sub-section (2A) of
section 6 of the Federal Excise Act, 2005 shall be
applicable for sales tax and federal excise returns for
the tax periods from July, 2016 and onwards.

Sub-rules (3) to (7) describe further process

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Important Dates

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Process Flow
Entry in Annexure-C and Annexure-I.
Availability of data to respective buyer in Purchase Data and
Debit and Credit Note Data
Submission of Annexure-C and Annexure-I by 10th before
submission of return by the supplier.
Supplier will feed STWH as a separate document in Annex-C which
will be available to Buyers as WH Agent from Purchase Data to
accept in the same period.
Loading of data in Annexure-A and Annexure-I from Purchase
Data and Debit and Credit Note Data by the buyer.
Manual entry of the invoices of the unregistered person and the
registered person allowed by the Board.
Intimation to the buyer if all suppliers have filed their returns.

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 If supplier has not filed return, the buyer shall be

allowed input tax adjustment till the 10th day of the
next month with the message.
In case of non-filing, recovery of input tax through row 7a
In case of filing adjustment shall be allowed through row
7b
The balance shall appear in row 7c

If the buyer does not declare withheld amount of sales

tax, the supplier shall be allowed reduction in output
tax till the 10th day of the next month.
In case of non-declaration, recovery of tax through row 7a,
in case of declaration, adjustment shall be allowed through
row 7b
the balance shall appear in row 7c.
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 If the buyer does not accept the Credit Note,

the supplier shall be allowed reduction in
output tax till the 10th day of the next month.
In case of non-acceptance, recovery of tax through
row 7a,
in case of acceptance, adjustment shall be allowed
through row 7b,
the balance shall appear in row 7c.

The buyer shall be intimated on every status

change, and on removal of all objections.
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FBR Web Portal- Taxpayers

https://e.fbr.gov.pk/

Declaration Tab
Sales Tax Return (FY 2016-17)

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Annex C Preparation

New Options: Annex C

Submit
Invoices

Submit
Annex

Real-time
Status

Real-Time Status of your Submitted Invoices:

1. Claimed by Buyers (Locked)
2. Unclaimed (editable)
3. Rejected
Submitted Sale Invoices will be available to buyers
for claim

Annex C: Excel file loading data

Making Annex -A

Loading Purchase Data

Press purchase data for selection of invoices submitted by
suppliers
For permissible categories of registered persons or directly
enter invoice data of unregistered persons or prescribe
categories of registered persons search as DISCOs, AJK Suppliers
etc.

Purchase
Data

Loading Data into Annex -A

Search

Load
Data

Download
to Excel

Reject

Debit /Credit Data Annex-I

Loading Debit/Credit Data

New Rows in Main Return 7 a,b,c

New Rows in Main Return 7 a,b,c

Inadmissible input tax credit in terms of section
7(2)(i) read with section 8(1)(l) of the Sales Tax
7a Act, 1990 and disallowance of reduction in output
tax in respect of withholding of sales tax/Credit
Notes.
Allowance of input tax credit and reduction of
7b
output tax out of previous return column 7c
Balance of earlier disallowed input tax credit and
7c disallowed reduction of output tax through
column 7a
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MIS Reports (for 7a, 7b, 7c)

New Columns added to return

Electricity supplied
to marble/granite
12a
industry (non
Adjustable)

18a

Turnover Tax payable

by retailers @ 2%

KWH

Annex-C

Turnover

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Focal Person in Regional Offices

Mr Mumtaz Ahmed
Additional CIR Zone IV RTO II Karachi:
Mr Imran Mehmood
ACIR Zone IV RTO II Karachi:

Mr Naeem Hassan
Additional CIR, LTU Islamabad
Mr Tila Muhammad
Assitant Director Audit LTU Islamabad

Mr Ali Adnan Zaidi 042-9921316

Additional HQ LTU Lahore
Mr Iftikhar Ali 042-111588588 Ext 758
IRAO LTU Lahore

Mr Nayyer Mahmood 055-9200727

Additional CIR RTO Gujranwala
Sardar Shaukat Hayat
Auditor IR, RTO Gujranwala

Mr Gulam Sarwar Shah 062-9255275

Additional CIR RTO Bahawalpur:
Mr Safdar Bashir Auditor IR 062-9239286
Dr Perveiz Ahmed Shar 071-9310139
Additional CIR RTO Sakhar:
Mr Naseer Ahmed Chandio 071-9310143
DC IR RTO Sakhar:

Mr Usman Asghar 052-9250427

Additional CIR RTO Sialkot:
Mr Shahid Iqbal 052-9250428
Assistant Director (Audit) RTO Sialkot
Ms. Shabana Aziz 042-99211955
Additional CIR HQ RTO II Lahore
Mr Aqeel Ahmed
IRAO RTO II Lahore
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Focal Person in Regional Offices

Mr Atif Ali 021-99243947
Additional CIR Zone 2 RTO III Karachi
Mr Imran Falak Sher 021-99249526
SO1 CCIR Office RTO III Karachi

Dr Naveed Khalid 051-9292650

Additional CIR RTO Rawalpindi
Mr Sajid Raza Mirza 051-9292746
Assistant Director (Audit)

Mr Abbas Ahmed 042-99214161

Assistant Director Audit, RTO Lahore
Mr Mateen Ahmed 042-99214161
Auditor IR , RTO Lahore

Mr. Ahmed Ameer Khan 021-99218498

Cost Accountant. RTO Karachi
Zulfiqar Khokhar 021-99218597
Assistant Director (Audit) RTO Karachi
Mr Tariq Jamal Khatak 051-9106400
Additional CIR RTO Islamabad

Mr Hayat Muhammad
Additional CIR (Withholding) RTO
Abbottabad
MR Arshad Raza
Assistant Director Audit RTO
Abbottabad

Mr Shakeel Ahmed Ejaz

Assistant Director Audit, RTO Islamabad

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Tax Domain Help Center

Phone:
Email :

042-99214161

crestfbrhq@gmail.com

Address:
1st Floor, Tax House, Nabha Road Lahore.
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Abdul Hameed Memon

Chief (Automation & S Tax)
051-9204520
hameed.memon@gmail.com

Raza Ashfaq Shaikh

Sec (Law, Proc. & Exemption)
051-9206802
razaashfaq@hotmail.com